Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from Don Trump Jr. last week. I was surprised by how quickly everything happened. One day, we got a lengthy Page Six story about how she was sick of Don leaving her at home with five kids while he galavanted around, committing treason, and then the next day she really did file for divorce. In the aftermath, many assumed that this was some complicated financial/legal reasoning behind Vanessa’s move, that she wanted to cash out before Bob Mueller seized their assets, or that she wanted to free of Don before he got sent to prison. But what if this divorce is just about Don being a garden variety skeeze? Apparently, he was sliding into attractive models’ DMs for months.
While some were surprised to learn that Donald Trump Jr.‘s wife, Vanessa, is divorcing him after 12 years of marriage, former model Melissa Stetten was not among them. After news broke of the split on Thursday evening, Stetten took to Twitter to reveal a direct message (DM) and tweets that Trump sent her in November 2011, just weeks after wife Vanessa had given birth to son Tristan, their third of five children together.
“Surprised his marriage didn’t work out since he was sending me DMs a month after his wife gave birth,” Stetten tweeted, also sharing a screen shot of Trump Jr.’s DM, which read: “Well Im getting s–t 4the bacon comment glad I opted not 2send the tweet asking 4pics from ur bathroom tweet last night;) people need2chil.”
Stetten explained Thursday that his DM came after she tweeted a “joke about pulling a muscle changing a tampon” and — to her bafflement — “he replied asking if I smelled bacon?” (A spokeswoman for Trump Jr. provided the full thread of their DMs, which she said showed that the exchange was just a joke.)
Stetten told PEOPLE that she had “no idea” what he meant by the bacon reference but pointed to tweets from November 2011 suggesting Trump Jr. has “some weird obsession with bacon.” One tweet from Trump Jr. that day read: “Does anyone else have a Bacon fetish??? It sounds so wrong but tastes so right!”
Stetten tells PEOPLE that she didn’t know Trump Jr. personally before he reached out on Twitter. “He just started following me so I followed back. He would favorite my tweets and occasionally reply,” she explains. “I always thought of the Trumps as idiots so it was entertaining to see his failed attempts at hitting on me.”
You can read Melissa’s tweets here – she’s very funny and I’m following her on Twitter now. Now, to be clear, Don Jr wasn’t sliding into her DMs to directly proposition her or ask for a meet-up. He was just tweeting at her most of the time with really awkward attempts at bacon-scented flirtation. It would have been completely harmless, if not for the fact that his wife had just given birth and here’s Don Jr, sliding into a lady’s DMs. I think most wives would have a problem with that, just as I believe Don was probably doing that with some regularity with many women. Ugh. Gross.
Because women in relationships are immune to getting hit on by creeps. Cool logic. pic.twitter.com/nh0a5qUcNF
— Melissa Stetten (@MelissaStetten) March 16, 2018
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Like father like son.
Yep!
Indeed.
The offal surely didn’t fall far from the carcass.
We’ll I came here to make a snide comment but I can’t top yours. You win the comment section on this one.
Nice!
My favorite though is still “the apple doesn’t fall far from the orange” – clean and elegant and so very accurate.
(from John Oliver re. Ivanka)
Like father like son – hopefully the whole Trump family gets punished.
2 disgusting 2 think about 4 me.
http://www.fitbomb.com/2012/01/bacon-tampons.html?m=1
I’m guessing this is where his comment comes from, but still… Gross. She was talking about her period, not a nosebleed.
Right; she had blood coming out of her, wherever.
As per usual, my sympathies are with the children, who did not ask and do not deserve any of this. Tough, in the long run, growing far away from treasonous daddy might be a good thing.
Good Gawd, he’s repulsive. Every last one of the Trumps is creepy and disgusting. No vast amount of money and alcohol could ever make them tolerable.
I certainly don’t like Trump Jr., like anything too “trumpish”, but this story sounds like Mrs. Stettens attempt for 15 minutes of fame. Every woman has stories about married men hitting on them, famous and/or non-famous. LOL
I’m sorry and that makes it okay because it happens all the time? When I was a flight attendant, I actually had to go out and buy myself a garnet and diamond ring which I put on my engagement finger to fend off guys making passes at me. Even the ring didn’t stop them. When women say, “no we’re not interested,” it should stop there. I did not find the attention flattering and I’m sure this girl who got DM’s from Donald jr. didn’t either.
Ama, what you said is gross. Married men don’t get a pass for hitting on women just because it’s done all the time. Blech.
So it’s her fault this guy is a creep?
You’ve missed the point.
I almost so sick of women, who have less than flattering stories to tell about famous men, being referred to as “looking for their 15 minutes.” Anyone can be famous these days all you need is an Instagram.
Instagram doesn’t make you famous. That’s not fame, that’s lots of attention. But I understand what you mean.
Her tweets are pretty funny. ‘They’ll have to pry my TSA Pre-check from my cold, dead hands’.
“I always thought of the Trumps as idiots”
Bless this (edited) quote
I knew I had heard the name Melissa Steffen before. She once live tweeted being hit on by a married soap star. She is also racist. Of course she tried to weasel out of her past racist behavior with a less than believable apology. But she is full of it.
https://jezebel.com/5917909/model-who-livetweeted-being-hit-on-by-creepy-guy-on-airplane-is-lying-says-creepy-guy
https://www.xojane.com/issues/i-used-to-be-a-sht-head-and-tell-offensive-jokes-and-im-sorry
Yep. Melissa Stetten is problematic AF and lives for attention.
“I was 26 and knowing myself…” F&#%ck off, cool girl.
So…. the Trump guys’ exact type?
Bingo.
Thanks for this, Merritt. I’d never heard of her, she is disgusting. They’re both a-holes.
imagine being as unattractive as don jr and thinking these gross messages will make a model want you.
I mean, you’re going to have to pay me a lot of money to believe these upper class white ladies of old money aren’t raised to just tolerate their husbands sleeping around, eh? I highly doubt this caused the breakup.
I just realized his head and weak chin look like a cashew.
you are being far too generous!
Oh NO! I love cashews and may never be able to put another into my mouth ever, ever again.
Considering she hired a criminal attorney the divorce is clearly nowt to do with any alleged cheating and more to do with any upcoming arrests/subpoena’s coming from Mueller.
That’s what I think. She wants to get her kids away from DTJr’s perp walk.
Why can’t it be both? Asset protection and he’s cheater.
(Gag)
Seriously.
Why would any woman want to get close to that?
I mean, who knows, and he’s disgusting no matter what the reason for the divorce, but I tend to believe there’s more to it than him flirting on Twitter like a demented 12-year-old, or even cheating. She’s been married to DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR for 12 years. God knows the kind of sh-t he’s done in that time. And these people are all about that money. Renegotiate the prenup, whatever. I find it VERY hard to believe a woman who was willing to marry, and stay married to, DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR, suddenly got standards or integrity and pulled the plug over that, especially when this family is obsessed with image and this is happening while dad is *”president” AND has a sh-t ton of problems with women.
His chin looks like the butt of a donkey.
That’s much better than a cashew. I don’t want to live in a world without cashews, but if I have to give up donkeys, that’s all right.
I read that Mueller has filed 7 more indictments, hopefully one has Don Jr.’s name on it. And if so, as his ex, she CAN testify against him.
She can testify against him even if they’re still married. He can’t stop her. She’s the only one who can invoke privilege. She can’t be held in contempt if she doesn’t testify against him when still married but she can still testify against him if she wants.